Dr. Sabya Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis.

Dr. Mihalis Golias, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis

Dr. Roy Jafari, Assistant Professor at Cal Poly – Obispo

Dr. Sushil Poudel, Advanced Analytics Manager at UPS

Dr. Nasibeh Farahani, Ph.D. in Operations Research; Researcher, Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution (CELDi), University of Missouri Columbia.

Peyton Price, Researcher at US NAVY

Dr. Yunyi Kang, researcher, Arizona State University.

Dr. Nazanin Morshedlou, former Post-Doctorate Fellow at University of Oklahoma and Part-time Data Analyst at Always Education. Currently working as an Assistant professor at Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University.

Dr. Miao Bai, former postdoctoral research associate in the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery at Mayo Clinic.

Year 2017-18

In 2018, the INFORMS Student chapter at Mississippi State organized workshops on Articial Neural Networks, MATLAB, and Supercomputing.

We were lucky to have Dr. Jessica L. Heier Stamm, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Kansas State University visit this February. She shared some of her research experiences with the members and provided guidance on ways to cope with professional challenges.

We also hosted Dr. Halit Uster, Professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems at Southern Methodist University in April 2018. In addition to presenting his recent research, he made some valuable suggestions to make the INFORMS student chapter more successful.

Year 2016-17

On behalf of Disaster Preparedness and Management Working Group (DPMWG) sponsored by the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) at MSU, I am pleased to invite you to join the research seminar presented by Dr. Sarah G. Nurre, Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Arkansas on July 12, 2016(Tuesday)from 11:30 am – 1:0 pm at Brannan Conference Room. The title of Dr. Sarah’s presentation will be “Optimal Policies for the Management of an Electric Vehicle Battery Swap Station”. Dr. Sarah’s schedule with the working group are attached here with this email.

On behalf of Transportation Working Group (TWG) sponsored by the Bagley College of Engineering, I am pleased to invite you to join the research seminar presented byDr.Mihalis M. Golias, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Associate Director for Research in the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute, at the University of Memphis (UoM) on November 4th, 2016(Friday) from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm at Brannan Conference Room. Dr. Golias’s presentation title will be “Applications of Game Theory to Container Terminals”. Dr. Golias’s brief bio and his schedule to MSU are attached here with this email.

On behalf of Transportation Working Group (TWG) sponsored by the Bagley College of Engineering, I am pleased to invite you to join the research seminar presented byDr.MD Sarder, Associate Professor and Assistant Director for the Center for Logistics, Trade, and Transportation at the University of Southern Mississippi on November 11th, 2016(Friday) from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm at Brannan Conference Room. Dr. Sarder’s presentation title will be “Reshoring and its impact on US Transportation Network”. Dr. Sarder’s brief bio and his schedule to MSU are attached here with this email.

On behalf of Transportation Working Group (TWG), sponsored by the Bagley College of Engineering, I am pleased to invite you to join the research seminar presented by Dr. Amy Bednar andMark Cowan, Research Mathematician, Computational Analysis Branch in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Vicksburg, MS on January 24th, 2017(Tuesday) from 11:30 am – 12:45 pm at Brannan Conference Room. Dr. Bednar and Mark’s presentation title will be “Operations Research Methods for Military Logistics”. Dr. Bednar and Mark’s brief bio and their schedule to MSU are attached here with this email.

On behalf of the Transportation Working Group (TWG), sponsored by the Bagley College of Engineering, I am pleased to invite you to join the research seminar presented byChristina H. Rinaudo,Research Analyst at the Institute for Systems Engineering Research (ISER) at the Information Technology Lab (ITL) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) on March 3rd, 2017(Friday) from 11:30 am – 12:30 pmat Brannan Conference Room. Christina’s presentation title will be “Considering system resilience and the ilities from the DoD depot maintenance perspective”. Christina’s brief bio and her schedule to MSU are attached here with this email.

Year 2015-16

Dr. Waheed Uddin, Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology, University of Mississippi